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November 12, 2009 • Lead2, National News • 4 Comments
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SPANISH airline Iberia has agreed a merger with British Airways following 16 months of negotiations, according to Spanish sources.
The merger will see BA land a 55 per cent share in the company with Iberia owning 45 per cent.
The terms of the deal mean the company’s headquarters will be based in London.
It is thought that BA’s chief executive Willie Walsh will be the company’s new CEO and Iberia’s president, Antonio Vasquez, will be the chairman.
BA already owns 13.5 per cent of Iberia, and the two carriers have a code-sharing agreement under the One World grouping of airlines, which allows them to sell seats on each other’s services.
An initial bid from BA for it to own 60 per cent of the Spanish airline was rejected.
The merger will create the world’s third-largest airline by revenue. BA has, as yet, not confirmed the deal.
Both airlines will keep their names and fly as independent brands under the deal.
In other airline news, budget airline jet2.com has expanded its reward scheme to include British expatriates with a Spanish residential address.
Those signing up to the loyalty scheme, myjet2, before the end of November will be credited with 100 free bonus points – 600 points gets you a one-way flight from mainland Spain.
Every pound or euro spent on a flight, including the taxes, gains you one reward point.
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“600 points gets you a one-way flight from mainland Spain”. Are you trying to tell us something?? :)
Interestingly, if you rearrange the letters of “British Airways” and “Iberia” you get “It’s Iris, a haywire Rabbi”. Sorry, I was reading this on my coffee break and couldn’t think of anything more insightful!
>couldn’t think of anything more insightful
Btw did you know that your name is an anogram of:
HORROR’S HOT, STILL DOG-CHEAP
Sums up Spain and all those bargain properties on your website Christoper.
@FRED: Interesting anagram although all our properties are 100% legal and we have passed two inspections now by the Junta with flying colours. There are not many agencies that can boast that. It does pay off being honest though as we have a good reputation here in the pueblo and along the Costa. At the end of the day, we live here and see our customers regularly so the last thing a business wants are a lot of unsatisfied, unhappy customers.
For those of you that like Aviation, there is a real Concorde in the National Museum of Flight, near Edinburgh. You get to board the plane and see it in all it’s glory and learn how it made it’s final journey to rest in Scotland (and it wasn’t by air).